Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

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Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP); the first ever socialist member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; a founder, and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party; a founder of the National Party of Scotland in 1928; and the first president of the Scottish National Party in 1934.

Scottish - Politician | May 24, 1852 - March 20, 1936

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Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

If in another world there is any riding — and God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses — I cannot but think that there will be a soft swishing as of the footsteps of some invisible horse heard occasionally on the familiar trails over which the equestrian statue is to look.

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham